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Programmatic identity
The programmed public square has been a terrible place to live our lockdown lives, showing each of us exactly and only what it thinks we want the world to look like.
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Answering the call
Phones have fallen victim to becoming an open platform with no barriers to entry and a simple system for computational calling to make it a breeze for scammers.
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Digital capitulation
Friday, June 18, 2021 We’re on holiday next week so we’ll be back with more Byteside Daily on June 29. Big outage another CDN error: Yesterday afternoon, a major outage occurred that impacted a wide range of Australian institutions, including major banks and their mobile apps, Virgin Australia
Amazon hates social media too
Thursday, June 17, 2021 “No cops, please, it’s COVID”: This week, the Western Australian government has introduced legislation to limit the use of COVID check-in app data after the WA Police Force accessed the information in two investigations of serious crimes, which is allowed under the existing rules. To
Crop waste: the new jet fuel
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 Power to enforce cybersecurity: The Australian Signals Directorate, our national spy agency, wants to see laws introduced to compel organisations to cooperate in the event of a hack or ransomware attack, after a recent incident saw a company refuse assistance and ultimately become reinfected within months
"A shameful chapter"
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 It’s virtual E3 season, with dozens of major games announcements over the weekend. Here’s just a few of that caught our eye. Starfield won’t PlayStation: Bethesda’s Starfield had its first game footage, though still incredibly vague apart from the obvious “you’ll
And the award goes to...
Friday, June 11, 2021 WWDC winners are digital grinners: As WWDC wraps up for Apple developers, the Apple Design Awards have been announced, a great promotion for some of the best apps across iOS and macOS. I’m quite sure most people don’t browse the App Stores like they
The cowboy will be a real bop
Bitcoin goes legit: El Salvador has voted to make Bitcoin a legal tender currency in the country, the first country to do so. It sounds wild on its surface, but the legislation says it aims to add regulation to Bitcoin’s use in the country. The country’s other legal
An eternity on the Internet
Wednesday, June 9, 2021 Quite the bit of police work that: In one of the most remarkable digital policing operations ever seen, the Australian Federal Police in conjunction with America’s FBI managed to essentially run an encrypted messaging app for criminals, collecting masses of information and evidence over years
Networks
Fastly just showed us how CDNs keep the Internet alive – until they don't
Just saw a bunch of 503 errors on your favourite websites, like Amazon, Twitch, Reddit and major news outlets? Here's what went wrong.
What's another word for 'brave'?
Tuesday, June 8, 2021 NBN has a plan to end CVC – pay it different money! The National Broadband Network has suggested the first major overhaul to how its pricing is structured for resellers, with the existing price structure an eternal point of argument due to the Connectivity Virtual Circuit (CVC)